
Smoking Cessation Program. Dr. Rasha Salama PhD Community Medicine Suez Canal University Egypt. Facts about Smoking. Most of those killed by tobacco are not particularly heavy smokers and most started as teenagers.
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These points may be helpful in motivating people to quit smoking. Many smokers deny being at increased risk of cancer and heart disease and more accurate perception of risk may assist cessation efforts.
The following elements must all be included to maximize the success of any program to reduce tobacco use. Conducted in isolation, each of these elements can reduce tobacco use, but done together they have a much more powerful impact:
Research has demonstrated that tobacco industry marketing increases the number of kids who try smoking and become regular smokers. Not surprisingly, one of the best ways to reduce the power of tobacco marketing is an intense campaign to counter these pro-smoking messages.
Past experience with tobacco control efforts indicates that five principles should guide the development of a successful state program to prevent and reduce tobacco use:
Stopgap or partial measures will meet with only partial success. Elements work most effectively when they are combined in complementary fashion.
Individual Smoking Cessation
Allowed responses: within 5 minutes (3 pt), 6-30 minutes (2 pt); 31-60 minutes (1 pt); more than 60 minutes after waking up (0 pt)
Allowed responses: yes (1 pt), no (0 pt)
Allowed responses: the first one in morning (1 pt); any other one (0 pt)
Allowed responses: 10 or less (0 pt); 11-20 (1 pt); 21-30 (2 pt); 31 or more (3 pt)
Allowed responses: yes (1 pt), no (0 pt)
Allowed responses: yes (1 pt), no (0 pt)